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Locality Enoch Olade Aboh (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam)

Locality By Enoch Olade Aboh (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam)

Summary

Locality offers a range of new perspectives on an important aspect of syntactic movement. The papers collected here explore locality in two ways: the first section approaches locality in terms of pure syntax; the second approaches it in terms of psycholinguistics.

Locality Summary

Locality by Enoch Olade Aboh (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam)

Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in garden path sentences, as well. If syntax relates sound and meaning over an infinite domain, syntactic dependencies and operations must be restricted in such a way to apply over limited, finite domains in order to be detectable at all (although of course they may be allowed to iterate indefinitely). The theory of what these finite domains are and how they relate to the fundamentally unbounded nature of syntax is the theory of locality. The papers in this collection all deal with the concept of locality in syntactic theory, and, more specifically, describe and analyze the various contributions Luigi Rizzi has made to this area over the past three and a half decades. The authors are all eminent linguists in generative syntax who have collaborated with Rizzi closely, and in eleven chapters, they explore locality in both pure syntax and psycholinguistics. This collection is essential reading for students and scholars of linguistic theory, generative syntax, and comparative syntax.

Locality Reviews

The volume Locality represents a well-structured, consistent and coherent collection of papers... The volume is an extremely rewarding read, not only because the chapters in it are well-written, explaining how the issues discussed in each one of them relate to Luigi Rizzi's work and to other literature on the topic, but also because of the large pool of data analysed in them and the multitude of languages explored. This is what makes the present collection an equally exciting read for both students and scholars. * Linguist List *

About Enoch Olade Aboh (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam)

Enoch Olade Aboh is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam Maria Teresa Guasti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Contents ; 1. Locality: An introduction ; Enoch O. Aboh, Maria-Teresa Guasti, and Ian Robert ; 2. Locality and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion ; Richard S. Kayne and Jean-Yves Pollock ; 3. Subject Positions, Subject Extraction, EPP, and the Subject Criterion ; Ur Shlonsky ; 4. Extraction from DP in Italian revisited ; Guglielmo Cinque ; 5. French Reflexive se: Binding and Merge Locality ; Dominique Sportiche ; 6. Locality in restructuring: On weak wh-elements, and the IP-internal left-periphery ; Anna Cardinaletti ; 7. DE-infinitives as complements to Romanian nouns ; Virginia Hill ; 8. Locality and the distribution of main clause phenomena ; Liliane Haegeman ; 9. Locality and interference in the formation of object questions: a grammar through processing view ; Maria Teresa Guasti ; 10. The Left Periphery and Agrammatism: Wh-extractions in Danish ; Anne Mette Nyvad, Ken Ramshoj Christensen, Sten Vikner ; 11. Grammatical Processing: Down the Garden Path ; Tal Siloni

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NLS9780199945283
9780199945283
0199945284
Locality by Enoch Olade Aboh (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2014-01-30
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